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The making of a documentary photographer: oral history with Dorothea Lange

by: Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

Publication date: 1960/1961

Topics: californialightandsound, White, Clarence H., 1871-1925, Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942, Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946, United States. Farm Security Administration, United States. Office of War Information, United States. War Relocation Authority, Photographers--California, Photography--United States, Women photographers, San Francisco (Calif.)--Social life and customs

Language: English

Item Size: 67.9M

Description: Early interest in photography; study with Clarence White; work with Arnold Genthe; her photography studio in San Francisco; marriage to Maynard Dixon; Bohemian group in San Francisco; beginnings of documentary photography and photo-journalism; photography work for the U.S. government - Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information and War Relocation Authority; comments on taking, printing, captioning and exhibiting pictures. Photographs inserted. Appended: copy of memorial service; tributes appearing in various magazines; her proposal for a photography center; copies of articles about her, etc.

Collection Guide: The Regional Oral History Office, 1954-1979

Call Number: Phonotape 266:2 B

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Notes

Interviewer: Riess, Suzanne B.

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